Everything was black. The only thing I could hear was my breathing, loud and unsteady. My body was freezing, my eyelids felt like they were frozen shut, but I wasn’t in any pain. And then I heard a ticking noise, it was so faint I could have been imagining it, but then it got louder, like someone was pressing a clock to my ear. I couldn’t move, and the blackness I had seemed to be staring up at had turned into colourful swirls that filled the blank space, they whirled around until they vaguely formed two people dancing, a man and a woman. As the man spun the woman, she had a raging fit and devoured the mans neck.

I was slightly uncomfortable now, but I still watched.

As the man lay there the woman cried at his feet, begging him to wake up.

I didn’t want to be a monster, I didn’t want to hurt my beloved Gerard and even though I’m sceptical about his ability to save me, or for him to save himself, I’d still love him through it all.